Foxy Bingo – I’m Back
30 January 2009 by SilkyNow, before I begin, I must give a full disclosure – the people at Foxy Bingo are good friends of TV’s Worst Adverts. When TWA turned one they were very generous to this blog’s readers. We’ll always like them for that.
But… I can’t help but think that TV’s Worst Adverts might have given Foxy Bingo something in return: the idea for ther new advert.
You see, when Foxy was reinvented for the last Foxy Bingo ad TV’s Worst Adverts mention that the new Foxy looked like Tony Manero and, would you Adam and Eve it, Foxy’s only doing his best Saturday Night Fever dance routine in their latest ad!
OK, I grant you that the last ad did feature a disco classic as the sound track but I can’t help but think this is a little more than a coincidence.
Has TV’s Worst Adverts finally given something back into the world of TV advertising?
If so, why is that dancing half-man/half-fox freaking me out so much?
Maybe we’ll never know.
11Responses:
Stacey
Said on the 4 February 2009
The country is having money problems and all you see on the TV is BINGO and LOTTERY adverts. . .
Archer
Said on the 5 February 2009
Is the fox in the new advert computer-generated?
Probably a good thing. I used to have very weird feelings about the fox in the last ad. He was on my ‘I’d do him – but I don’t know why’ list.
bob
Said on the 7 February 2009
Archer you wanted to do him cos he was a woman.
I say bring back fox hunting.
We are in a economic reccession because weak brained idiots can’t control their spending urges, but enough of politicians and bankers some of the public are nearly as bad and to encourage them to spend what most havn’t got should not be engouraged but the goverment make good money from gambling taxes so won’t be in any hurry to try to stop it.
Cyberdent
Said on the 24 February 2009
I preferred the slightly creepy fox from the first Foxy Bingo adds. The suave and sophisticated one that announced in his old Etonian tones that the taciturn ladies were “saving their chat for Foxy Bingo dot com”. The realistaion from the ad men was probably that the “Karen Matthews” market segment they were targeting, needed a character to whom they could better empathise. So that’s why we now have thicko Northern bastard cheeky-chappy Foxy wanker.
Archer
Said on the 25 February 2009
Actually I wanted to do him cos he was a woman AND a thicko Northern bastard cheeky-chappy Foxy wanker. That’s my idea of a top date.
AngelEyes
Said on the 12 March 2009
“The country is having money problems and all you see on the TV is BINGO and LOTTERY adverts. . .”
Yep – online bingo and phone-in competitions…taking money from those who don’t really have it to spend in the first place…
Archer
Said on the 12 March 2009
It’s called idiot tax.
PeteBluesky
Said on the 29 March 2011
Are these guys still advertising? Haven’t seen this dross for a while…
Richard
Said on the 30 March 2011
I agree with AngelEyes above … all we hear about in the UK is debt levels and yet there are bingo, lottery and betting ads everywhere … they should be far more controlled…!
seth
Said on the 2 April 2011
@PeteBluesky
I think they don’t advertise this anymore, Haven’t seen this too.
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 2 April 2011
Hasn’t anyone seen that one about the £100,000 giveaway with some girl sealing tons of pink envelope? Urgh… crappy advert.